Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] it doesn’t actually substantiate the claim made by ‘Torbitt’ for which it is offered as evidence. I’m reasonably certain that ‘Torbitt’ is disinformation, probably produced by the CIA in the wake of the Garrison inquiry. It may even have been a response to the French disinformation production, Farewell America, a couple of years before. […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] Independent of 23 June 1993, commented that ‘she stood by him loyaly, convinced that he was the victim of an international plot involving double agents and the CIA.’ Well, something like that. Mrs Nixon’s death was announced only a week after Channel 4 TV’s Dispatches series broadcast a Barbara Newman documentary, ‘The Key to […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] pensions etc.(13) to be left to the politicians and the electorate. This seems to be a very common, if not near universal phenomenon. Think of the FBI, CIA; think of post-war Italy. Less well known examples are constantly being reported as the history of the Cold War is revealed. The invaluable Statewatch (May-June 1996) […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] ACSI agreed with the method applied to enhance their conventional interrogation standards. Although little concern was shown, the question of co-ordination with other agencies such as the CIA and FBI was raised. The final decision was made that the co-ordination with the other agencies would be postponed until after the conclusion of the field […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] also opposed by former head of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Thomas Moorer; beltway luminary the late Clark Clifford; former Secretary of State Dean Rusk; guardedly by former CIA chief Richard Helms; and by the surviving crew, who have maintained an active campaign for a congressional inquiry. Former Sunday Times chief reporter and broadcaster, Peter […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] seemed the likely proximate cause. I think I was probably wrong about that. In his Eclipse (reviewed in this issue) Mark Perry reveals (p. 43) that the CIA were angry with the Greek government because (a) they had released from jail two people the U.S. thought were terrorists, and (b) they had then expelled […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
From Ian Cameron Since reading certain recent somewhat naff offhand Lobster comments (1) in connection with the reissue of Gordon Carr’s Angry Brigade by Christie Books, I’ve looked at the book and a few other bits’n’pieces. So, it all led nowhere, and rightly so? Lobster isn’t the first and won’t be the last to mythologise. […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
Stakeknife: Britain’s Secret Agents in Ireland Martin Ingram and Greg Harkin Dublin: The O’Brien Press: 2004, £8.99, p/back Mad Dog: The rise and fall of Johnny Adair and ‘C Company’ David Lister and Hugh Jordan Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2003, £15.99, h/back Stakeknife is a former member’s account of some of the operations of the […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
Tom Mangold (Simon and Schuster, London and New York, 1991) On things Angleton, Tom Mangold’s Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton (Simon and Schuster, London and New York, 1991) is very good but is not the biography it pretends to be. There is nothing on Angleton’s time in Italy after the war; and, even more extraordinary, […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] the American people at a great cost to liberty.’ For thirty years the NSA obtained copies of most telex messages entering and leaving the U.S., and the CIA illegally intercepted thousands of first-class letters as they left the country. If the high-tech NSA were ever turned against us, Church said, ‘no American would have […]
